Our Publications
Welcome to the publications page of the Health and Environment Research (HER) lab. Our multidisciplinary research utilizes advanced epidemiological and spatial methods to understand the complex links between external environmental exposures—such as extreme temperatures, air pollution, and green spaces-and public health. We focus primarily on adverse pregnancy outcomes, childhood development, and environmental inequalities.
2026
Lindert, J., Sisenop, F., Agay-Shay, K., Etzel, R. A., Mollica, R., & Baccarelli, A. A. (2026). Threats and humiliation at the workplace and mental health among environmental scientists - a cross-sectional study. SSM - Mental Health, 9, Article 100573. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmmh.2025.100573
2024
Ben-Amram, H., Azrad, M., Cohen-Assodi, J., Sharabi-Nov, A., Edelstein, S., Agay-Shay, K., & Peretz, A. (2024). Biofilm Formation by Hospital-Acquired Resistant Bacteria Isolated from Respiratory Samples. Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health, 14(2), 291-297. https://doi.org/10.1007/s44197-024-00215-7
Kayyal-Tarabeia, I., Zick, A., Kloog, I., Levy, I., Blank, M., & Agay-Shay, K. (2024). Beyond lung cancer: air pollution and bladder, breast and prostate cancer incidence. International Journal of Epidemiology, 53(4), Article dyae093. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyae093
Kayyal-Tarabeia, I., Michael, Y., Lensky, I. M., Levy, I., Blank, M., & Agay-Shay, K. (2024). Residential greenness and lower breast and prostate cancer incidence: Evidence from a retrospective cohort study of 977,644 participants from Israel. Science of the Total Environment, 918, Article 170631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.170631
2023
Kayyal-Tarabeia, I., Blank, M., Zick, A., & Agay-Shay, K. (2023). Residence near industrial complex and cancer incidence: A registry-based cohort of 1,022,637 participants with a follow-up of 21 years, Israel. Environmental Research, 216, Article 114471. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.114471
Agay-Shay, K. (2023). Invited Perspective: Air Pollution and Congenital Heart Defects (CHDs)— a Summary of Two Decades and Future Direction in Research. Environmental Health Perspectives, 131(6), Article 061305. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP12931
סעדי, ד., אגאי-שי, ק., תירוש, ע., & שנל, י. (2023). מתח בין יהודים לערבים מסכן בריאות: שונות קצב לב אצל נשים יהודיות ומוסלמיות בעפולה ובנצרת. אופקים בגאוגרפיה, 103-104, 1-17. https://drive.google.com/file/d/19Y2YpJ8GhTaZbIg3Jkmc5bWzJg0VAq_N/view
Avizemel, O., Frishman, S., Pinto, Y., Michael, Y., Turjeman, S., Tenenbaum-Gavish, K., Yariv, O., Peled, Y., Poran, E., Pardo, J., Chen, R., Hod, M., Schwartz, B., Hadar, E., Koren, O., & Agay-Shay, K. (2023). “Residential greenness, gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) and microbiome diversity during pregnancy”. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 251, Article 114191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheh.2023.114191
2022
Heindel, J. J., Howard, S., Agay-Shay, K., Arrebola, J. P., Audouze, K., Babin, P. J., Barouki, R., Bansal, A., Blanc, E., Cave, M. C., Chatterjee, S., Chevalier, N., Choudhury, M., Collier, D., Connolly, L., Coumoul, X., Garruti, G., Gilbertson, M., Hoepner, L. A., ... Blumberg, B. (2022). Corrigendum to “Obesity II: Establishing causal links between chemical exposures and obesity” [Biochem. Pharmacol. 199 (2022) 115015] (Biochemical Pharmacology (2022) 199, (S0006295222001095), (10.1016/j.bcp.2022.115015)). Biochemical Pharmacology, 202, Article 115144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcp.2022.115144
Levhar, M., Schonblum, A., Arnon, L., Michael, Y., Sheelo, L. S., Eisner, M., Hadar, E., Meizner, I., Wiznitzer, A., Weller, A., Koren, L., & Agay-Shay, K. (2022). Residential greenness and hair cortisol levels during the first trimester of pregnancy. Environmental Research, 204, Article 112378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2021.112378
Kayyal-Tarabeia, I., Michael, Y., Lensky, I. M., Blank, M., & Agay-Shay, K. (2022). “Residential greenness and site-specific cancer: A registry based cohort of 144,427 participants with a 21-years of follow-up, Tel-Aviv district, Israel”. Environmental Research, 212, Article 113460. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2022.113460
Azrad, M., Vazana, D., On, A., Paritski, M., Rohana, H., Roshrosh, H., Agay-Shay, K., & Peretz, A. (2022). Antibiotic resistance patterns of Helicobacter pylori in North Israel – A six-year study. Helicobacter, 27(6), Article e12932. https://doi.org/10.1111/hel.12932
Heindel, J. J., Howard, S., Agay-Shay, K., Arrebola, J. P., Audouze, K., Babin, P. J., Barouki, R., Bansal, A., Blanc, E., Cave, M. C., Chatterjee, S., Chevalier, N., Choudhury, M., Collier, D., Connolly, L., Coumoul, X., Garruti, G., Gilbertson, M., Hoepner, L. A., ... Blumberg, B. (2022). Obesity II: Establishing causal links between chemical exposures and obesity. Biochemical Pharmacology, 199, Article 115015. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcp.2022.115015
2021
Azrad, M., Shmuel, C., Leshem, T., Hamo, Z., Baum, M., Rokney, A., Agay-Shay, K., & Peretz, A. (2021). Reduced susceptibility to chlorhexidine among staphylococcus aureus isolates in israel: Phenotypic and genotypic tolerance. Antibiotics, 10(3), Article 342. https://doi.org/10.3390/antibiotics10030342
Basagaña, X., Michael, Y., Lensky, I. M., Rubin, L., Grotto, I., Vadislavsky, E., Levi, Y., Amitai, E., & Agay-Shay, K. (2021). Low and high ambient temperatures during pregnancy and birth weight among 624,940 singleton term births in israel (2010–2014): An investigation of potential windows of susceptibility. Environmental Health Perspectives, 129(10), Article 107001. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP8117
2020
אגאי-שי, ק. (2020). השפעות הדדיות, ישירות ועקיפות, בין מגפת הקורונה, בריאות וסביבה. אקולוגיה וסביבה. https://www.magazine.isees.org.il/?p=16775
בוקמן, ש., & אגאי-שי, ק. (2020). אפידמיולוגיה סביבתית כדרך אפקטיבית להשפיע על הסביבה – ריאיון עם ד"ר קרן אגאי-שי: [ריאיון מתוך המדור: הפנים של המדע]. אקולוגיה וסביבה. https://magazine.isees.org.il/?p=33188
Deziel, N. C., Brokovich, E., Grotto, I., Clark, C. J., Barnett-Itzhaki, Z., Broday, D., & Agay-Shay, K. (2020). Unconventional oil and gas development and health outcomes: A scoping review of the epidemiological research. Environmental Research, 182, Article 109124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2020.109124
Saadi, D., Schnell, I., Tirosh, E., Basagaña, X., & Agay-Shay, K. (2020). There's no place like home? The psychological, physiological, and cognitive effects of short visits to outdoor urban environments compared to staying in the indoor home environment, a field experiment on women from two ethnic groups. Environmental Research, 187, Article 109687. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2020.109687
2019
Agay-Shay, K., Michael, Y., Basagaña, X., Martínez-Solanas, È., Broday, D., Lensky, I. M., Rudolf, M., Rubin, L., Kent, R., Levy, N., Haklai, Z., & Grotto, I. (2019). Mean and variance of greenness and pregnancy outcomes in Tel Aviv during 2000-14: Longitudinal and cross-sectional approaches. International Journal of Epidemiology, 48(4), 1054-1072. Article dyy249. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyy249
Kayyal-Tarabeia, I., Zick, A., Rottenberg, Y., Michael, Y., Lensky, I., Blank, M., & Agay-Shay, K. (2019). Urban residential greenness and cancer incidence: longitudinal approach.. Paper presented at 2019 Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology, Utrecht, Netherlands.
Saadi, D., Agay-Shay, K., Tirosh, E., & Schnell, I. (2019). The effects of crossing ethnic boundaries on the autonomic nervous system in Muslim and Jewish young women in Israel. Scientific Reports, 9(1), Article 1589. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-38290-z
Diana, S., Emanuel, T., Keren, A. S., & Izhak, S. (2019). Ethnic differences in home-related maternal stress: Muslim and Jewish mothers. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 16(22), Article 4393. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16224393
Sever, A., Essa-Hadad, J., Luder, A., Weiss, O., Agay-Shay, K., & Rudolf, M. (2019). Keeping children safe: a model for predicting families at risk for recurrent childhood injuries. Public Health, 170, 10-16. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2019.02.003
2018
Agay-Shay, K., Michael, Y., Basagaña, X., Martinez, E., Broday, D., Lensky, I., Rudolf, M., Rubin, L., Kent, R., Levy, N., Haklai, Z., & Grotto, I. (2018). Greenness and Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes in Tel-Aviv during 2000-2014. Paper presented at ISEE Conference, Ottawa, Canada.
Saadi, D., Agay-Shay, K., Tirosh, E., & Schnell, I. (2018). A comparison of the effects of selected mono-ethnic urban environments on the autonomic functions of Muslim and Jewish women in Israel. Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 190(11), Article 627. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-018-7000-0
Agay-Shay, K., Rudolf, M., Rubin, L., Haklai, Z., & Grotto, I. (2018). Trends in Fetal Growth between 2000 to 2014 in Singleton Live Births from Israel. Scientific Reports, 8(1), Article 1089. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19396-w
2015
Agay-Shay, K., Martinez, D., Valvi, D., Garcia-Esteban, R., Basagaña, X., Robinson, O., Casas, M., Sunyer, J., & Vrijheid, M. (2015). Exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals during pregnancy and weight at 7 years of age: A multi-pollutant approach. Environmental Health Perspectives, 123(10), 1030-1037. https://doi.org/10.1289/ehp.1409049
2014
Agay-Shay, K., Peled, A., Crespo, A. V., Peretz, C., Amitai, Y., Linn, S., Friger, M., & Nieuwenhuijsen, M. J. (2014). Green spaces and adverse pregnancy outcomes. Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 71(8), 562-569. https://doi.org/10.1136/oemed-2013-101961
אגאי-שי, ק. (2014). סביבה עירונית ירוקה ובריאות היילוד. אקולוגיה וסביבה, 5(3), 223-224. http://magazine.isees.org.il/ArticlePage.aspx?ArticleId=455
2013
Agay-Shay, K., Amitai, Y., Peretz, C., Linn, S., Friger, M., & Peled, A. (2013). Exploratory spatial data analysis of congenital malformations (CM) in Israel, 2000-2006. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2(1), 237-255. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi2010237
Agay-Shay, K., Friger, M., Linn, S., Peled, A., Amitai, Y., & Peretz, C. (2013). Ambient temperature and congenital heart defects. Human Reproduction, 28(8), 2289-2297. https://doi.org/10.1093/humrep/det244
Agay-Shay, K., Friger, M., Linn, S., Peled, A., Amitai, Y., & Peretz, C. (2013). Air pollution and congenital heart defects. Environmental Research, 124, 28-34. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envres.2013.03.005
2012
Agay-Shay, K., Friger, M., Linn, S., Peled, A., Amitai, Y., & Peretz, C. (2012). Periodicity and time trends in the prevalence of total births and conceptions with congenital malformations among Jews and Muslims in Israel, 1999-2006: A time series study of 823,966 births. Birth Defects Research Part A - Clinical and Molecular Teratology, 94(6), 438-448. https://doi.org/10.1002/bdra.23010
2009
אורון, ג., דריזין, א., בראודה, א., לוין, א., אסבן, ש., אגאי-שי, ק., איתן, ג., דבורי, נ., צוק, ש., & לשם, א. (2009). הנחיות חלופיות להשבת מים אפורים. מים והשקיה: ירחון ארגון עובדי המים, 504, 36-43.